Tis the season to write reviews of the year, so jumping on a bandwagon for once… Our bi year highlights: * The biggest UK BiCon ever with 297 people over four days in Leicester * Bi Visibility Day on 23rd September having a bigger profile than ever – Bi Day website september23 reported double...
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Looking for a new year’s resolution in time for the chimes of Big Ben tomorrow? Local bi group in Manchester, BiPhoria, have sent out their New Year circular to people they’ve met at their outreach stalls – with three suggestions. Maybe you’ll want to take one of them up! * going along to a...
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BiCon 2012 today opened bookings for the biggest event in the bisexual calendar. With prices for the five day residential event starting at just £135 including accommodation, attendance is expected to be high: 2011′s BiCon set a new record attendance for a UK bi event. Libby, one of the pair heading the team this...
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This is a poster, displayed at BiCon 2011, which summarises some of the demographic findings of the BiCon 2008 survey. The Bi Research Group, who conduct the BiCon survey each year, tell us: “We are still inputting and analysing the data from the surveys that we have collected over the years.” “These are some...
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The biggest event in the UK bi calendar, BiCon, will come to Yorkshire for the first time in its 29-year history next summer. BiCon is an annual gathering for bisexual people, their friends, partners and anyone with a supportive interest in bisexuality. It takes place annually and is held over a long weekend, usually...
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The latest edition of bi magazine BCN has hit the streets, reporting on the bisexual activism conference in the summer, and bi visibility at a host of Prides this summer. It also explores how doing outreach and awareness work about bisexuality can teach you as much as it teaches the people you’re talking to,...
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This year’s BiCon in Leicester was the biggest UK BiCon yet – with 297 people (and a stuffed reindeer… best not to ask) taking part across the four days. While 2010′s event was bigger – the tally there was added to by incorporating both the International BiCon and the first International Conference on Bisexual...
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It’s the final day of this year’s BiCon today with a morning offering fun from life drawing to how to get involved in the bi press – so if you’ve always wanted to write for BiMedia or Bi Community News (or indeed overseas bi titles like Bi Women or The Fence), what better chance...
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It’s decision-day at this year’s BiCon today, with the big “decision-making plenary” session as part of the day’s agenda. The “DMP” is where BiCon goers can vote to give funding to specific pieces of work of benefit to the bi community (such as the 2009 Bis At Prides project) and where the decision is...
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The biggest bi event of 2011 is in full swing now – and set to be one of the biggest in its 27-year history. Today is the first full day of BiCon in Leicester, with the daytime programme covering a host of topics from Shakespeare to the challenges of being out as bi in...
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